Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.